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Steve Pope

sf > wrote:

>On Sun, 6 May 2012 14:55:57 +0000 (UTC), (Steve
>Pope) wrote:
>
>> sf > wrote:
>>
>> >On Sun, 6 May 2012 14:07:34 +0000 (UTC), (Steve
>>
>> >> We need to do this every two months or so. Sometimes, if there's a lot
>> >> of starting material we have two or even three pots going.
>>
>> >Two to three pots of *vegetable* stock? How much money do you spend
>> >on vegetables for this?
>>
>> Pretty much zero, because we use only the scraps from the vegetables.
>>
>If you have that many vegetables that would go bad without being used
>in stock, you're buying too many vegetables at any one time.

I think you may be underestimating the amount of vegetables we normally
go through. Only a small fraction are tossed into the freezer lest
they go bad.

Then there's the person up the block who gives us the excess veggies from
her CSA box. (Which she in turn gets for free, in exchange for allowing
the CSA pickups to occur from her front porch... each week on CSA day,
there is a procession of very large SUV's arriving each to pick up one
box of vegetables ... very carbon efficient...)

Steve